140 WHEN BERRIES ARE RIPE 



Tommy doesn't laugh so much as Philip, but 

 when he does he nearly closes his eyes and puts 

 his head back and laughs so heartily that every 

 one else laughs too. 



Another thing about the Wild Raspberry bush 

 is that its leaves are very useful. Sometimes 

 when we are thirsty, and the day is hot, we fold 

 them together like little scoops and drink the cool- 

 ing water of the stream from them. When 

 Tommy takes up a little plant to carry home and 

 put in his garden, he wraps its roots around with 

 Wild Raspberry leaves so as to keep them all 

 right. Sometimes, though, he is not near Wild 

 Raspberry bushes when he wants large leaves and 

 then he has to be satisfied with others which are 

 scarcely as useful. I'm sorry that we don't find 

 them near Old Adam as we do Wild Strawberries 

 and Blackberry vines. 



Sometimes when Tommy goes to his tree seat 

 to rest and think about things, he finds little Black 

 Caps as well as Blackberry vines growing up all 

 around him. He eats a great many of the little 

 Black Caps, perhaps because they help him to 

 think better. 



Until I came to live in the country, I used to 

 think that all berries grew on the same kind of 

 bush; but now it would make me laugh to see 

 Wild Strawberries hanging from Blackberry vines, 

 or Blackberries growing on the Strawberry's little 

 plants. The Raspberry, too, must surely look 



